I suppose you're talking about direct connection from device to MySQL, are you?
I've done a lot of programming with Desktop, client/server software with Delphi, and Web database apps with PHP. With mobile devices, since the connection most probably would be WiFi, there is no such thing as stable connection, therefore even in a local area network you will have dropped connections.
For that reason I am trying to develop a library based on MySQLTunnel.php which our company utilizes in a lot of cases. both the tunnel and B4A classes can be found here
http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional...3-class-dbmysql-connect-via-mysql-tunnel.html
The idea is to have a Delphi like dataset on the device with all the functionality, and when needed post updates to the DB.
You can give it a try